Re: How To Change .iso Icons In Thunar [Solved]

I'm running Arch, so some details will have to be change to suit your distro. This is how I changed my *.iso icon from a blank file looking icon to a nice cd/dvd icon.

1) Built and installed assogiate from the AUR 2) Assogiate wouldn't run im my user account so....3) I ran it in gksu ie: $ gksu assogiate4) Click the Database tab and select the "system database"5) Use the search function to find "iso". My search results showed a single entry with the name "x-iso9660-image"6) Double click the entry to edit the "default icon"7) Click on the box to the right of the default icon file listing, navigate to your icon of choice and select it.8) Re-login to update the mime database.

Re: How To Change .iso Icons In Thunar [Solved]

I had a problem in Arch with some icons being replaced by this “blank sheet of paper” recently. I think it was caused by the librsvg update, or something related. I had to run a command to get my icons back; I think it was this one:

Re: How To Change .iso Icons In Thunar [Solved]

Over 5000 views of this post. I'm wondering if someone here who's part of the xfce team and has the capacity could either figure out whats really wrong in Thunar, or possibly make this fix into a patch to submit. It would be a nice default setting. I'd do it but it's a bit beyond my capabilities.

I've had to come up with a new fix for thunar showing a text icon for iso images rather than a CD icon. Assogiate made this really easy, but it's long gone these days. This took a bit of trial and error to figure out. It works 100% on my current Arch system and should work on any others.

You'll need to place 2 identical .xml files within the .hidden files of your home directory.

Call the files:

override.xml

Most of the contents were copied from /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml , with a few additions.